📍This is a hybrid role in our Eindhoven HQ (1x per week at the office)
This is what you tell people at parties 👋“At Sendcloud, we build an all-in-one shipping solution that automates the entire shipping process for e-commerce businesses. With more than 25,000 customers across Europe, and soon beyond, we’re on a mission to become the leading global shipping solution.
We work in a high-performing environment where wins are celebrated, challenges push us forward, and impact is felt daily. Together with Sendcloud, I’m helping empower businesses with world-class shipping.”
What you will do in this role 🧐As Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our 15+ cross-functional feature teams, working on the core systems that power Sendcloud. We integrate numerous carriers and online stores into a fast, intuitive platform used by merchants across Europe.
We release early, release often, and automate everything we can. Our codebase has high test coverage, our CI pipelines run continuously, and we’re always looking for ways to improve performance, reliability, and developer happiness.
As part of the team, you will:
Translate product requirements into actionable technical plans, milestones, and implementation steps
Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams to align on delivery
Take responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of your team’s projects, from discovery to rollout
Identify risks early, communicate them clearly, and keep the team aligned and unblocked
Mentor teammates and help elevate delivery practices within the team
Write clean, scalable, well-tested Python code
Contribute to a distributed, event-driven architecture used by thousands of merchants
Improve observability, performance, and reliability across our systems
Own what you build, from code to production
You have:
At least 5 years of experience with Python and frameworks like FastAPI or Django (other Python frameworks are a plus)
Extensive experience building and working with REST APIs
A habit of writing code that’s always under test and in version control (we use Git)
Experience with Linux and the command line
A mindset of designing code with production observability in mind
Experience developing distributed and scalable systems
Experience with at least one of the following: Docker, AWS, Azure, or GCP
Good written and verbal communication skills in English
A collaborative mindset and an interest in mentoring and guiding others
💩 No bullshit – We don’t do egos. We’re honest, transparent, and open. Share your mistakes and learn from them.
🎯 Grow & Win – You’re curious, ambitious, and always learning.
🎠 Have fun – You’re not afraid to be yourself and love working with awesome colleagues.
Work in an internationally oriented, dynamic, certified Great Place to Work 📌
Flexible hybrid working model + €500 budget to set up your home office 🏠
A competitive salary that grows with your impact 💸
A 4-week paid sabbatical after 3 years 🏝️
€2,000 annual study budget 🎓
Access to the Sendcloud gym and weekly bootcamp sessions 💪
Pension scheme
Health insurance discount
Access to various employee discount programs — shop til you drop 🛍️
Top Skills
What We Do
At Sendcloud, we help online retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment companies scale their operations and deliver great shipping experiences.
In today's world, consumers want to decide where, when, and how they receive an order when shopping online. But actually delivering on this promise while still making a profit is a huge challenge for e-commerce.
Founded in 2012, Sendcloud was born from a genuine need for a better way to ship. We centralize and automate the entire shipping process, helping online retailers save time on everything from printing labels and packing orders to branded tracking and returns management.
With access to 100+ carriers, 7000+ shipping methods, and 400,000+ parcel points across Europe, Sendcloud enables online merchants of any size to own their shipping from checkout to returns. With a growing ecosystem of 60+ webshop integrations and 750+ partners, we make it easy for online shops to scale cross-border shipping and expand to new markets.
Backed by Softbank and trusted by 25,000 companies and counting - join Sendcloud on our mission to solve shipping globally
